Talk:DuMont Television Network

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Former good articleDuMont Television Network was one of the Media and drama good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
On this day... Article milestones
DateProcessResult
October 6, 2006Peer reviewReviewed
November 10, 2006Good article nomineeListed
January 9, 2007Featured article candidateNot promoted
May 17, 2009Good article reassessmentKept
June 17, 2023Good article reassessmentDelisted
On this day... Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on August 6, 2012, and August 6, 2016.
Current status: Delisted good article

kovacs show clarification[edit]

The text states that the kovacs show was a departure from radio on tv, and innovative. The basis of that is that before Kovacs, TV mainly consisted of people talking, dramas lifted from radio, and concerts. Kovacs intoduced a plethora of sight gags, such as having an upside down room with an upside down camera, making it seem that say trying to pour milk into a glass just went upwards in defiance of gravity. Similar sight gags are still copied to this day. No, I don't have references for this, but I did used to watch the Kovacs show, including one class trip to watch it in person. peter (talk) 16:44, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Channel 1[edit]

("channel 1" had been removed from television broadcasting use because storms and other types of interference could severely affect the quality of its signals)...

Who wrote this, the Motorola lobbyists?

Channel 1 was removed so that it could be reallocated to land-mobile radio. It's not that the TV broadcasters didn't want to keep it, given that VHF TV channels are already scarce enough.

The interference was a good argument (or an excuse) to use to lobby the FCC, but it's not the primary reason that analog OTA VHF TV permanently lost a channel.

(Digital TV is another matter... no one in their right mind wants VHF DT2 if anything else is available, but that couldn't have been foreseen in 1948.) 66.102.87.40 (talk) 19:10, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Motorola has lobbyists? – AndyFielding (talk) 01:12, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Salvageable? Not salvageable?[edit]

Although films submerged for decades have been successfully recovered… there have been no salvage-diving efforts to locate or recover the DuMont archive. If it survived in that environment, most of the films have likely been damaged. Other kinescopes were put through a silver reclaiming process, because of the microscopic amounts of silver that made up the emulsion of black-and-white film during this time.

So what does this mean—that the DuMont films could be salvaged, or not? I'm getting passive-aggressive vibes here… Could it be a coy gambit that the films may be salvageable if someone cares enough to look for them? – AndyFielding (talk) 01:12, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

See also section[edit]

The "See also" section seems to me to be very long and I do not fully see why some of the entries are there as their connection to this article is something of a stretch. For instance "Death on the Rock" was an episode of This Week, a British television programme broadcast several decades after the DuMont network had ceased broadcasting, so I fail to see how it's story is relevant to this article. Additionally the accompanying statement that it led "the loss of" Thames Television's "ITV franchise due to an alleged political motivations against airing it" is not something that has been proven - it has merely been suggested by some as an important factor in the decision, but this is certainly not universally accepted as the only cause and others have suggested other reasons. Likewise the 1939 Temporary shutdown of BBC Television Service (which links to an article about a Mickey Mouse cartoon) is in no way comparable to the demise of DuMount. Dunarc (talk) 21:02, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment[edit]

DuMont Television Network[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.


Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · WatchWatch article reassessment page • GAN review not found
Result: Significant uncited material, including statistics and potentially controversial information, in addition to issues with verifiability as outlined below, mean that the article fails GA criterion 2. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:58, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA from 2006. There's lots of uncited material, some tagged with citation needed tags, and some page needed tags. Bambots reports "Page number citations needed (April 2011, August 2020), ... (August 2012, August 2019, August 2020, October 2021), Dead external links ((dead link)) (August 2017, July 2021), Clarification needed (March 2018), CS1 errors: generic name" Onegreatjoke (talk) 01:39, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.